Technology and Teacher Professional Development

     Through my individual efforts, I learned about Lynda.com. This resource provides video courses in software, creative, and business skills which are taught by indistry experts. I thought this was a nice resource that I could see myself use one day. By viewing the bookmarks and annotations of others, I learned about many more teacher development tools. Specifically, I learned about TeacherVision which allows educators to improve their teaching skills. I enjoyed discussing these tools with my classmates. It helped me learn about the interesting features of each website. I look forward to continuing using Diigo in this class!

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